Rather than the usual gloom that hits Seattle skies, residents woke up to a fantastic sunrise, blanketing our beautiful city in a veil of pink, orange, and purple.

Not a bad way to start off the humpday.

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According to photographer Sigma Sreedharan, the skies were incredibly vivid — to the point that she wondered if she should reduce the vibrancy of her photos in the fear that people would think she’d over-edited the images. In the end, she kept the vibrancy and instead played around with contrast and tones.

Here’s what other Seattleites captured this morning:

Another beautiful but chilly winter sunrise this morning…#bainbridgeisland #Seattle #wsferries #shotoniphone @wsferries pic.twitter.com/swBqS3aRN7

— Jim Reitz (@jimre) December 23, 2020

Seattle #Sunrise reflection this morning. Nothing beats a #Seattle December morning… pic.twitter.com/9dlpx1rLAn

— [email protected] (@SeatownNative) December 23, 2020

I’ll just drop this beauty of today’s sunrise in Seattle right here for ya pic.twitter.com/oRdndwwZml

— Taryn Atlee🌼 (@tarynatlee_) December 23, 2020

I cannot decide which picture I like best of the mountain this morning 1, 2 or 3? @MtRainierWatch @KSeattleWeather #mountrainier #seattle #spaceneedle #pnw #wawx #sunrise pic.twitter.com/qO1L7JUu1J

— J. Alley (@deliaalley) December 23, 2020

#Seattle you keep astounding me. This is today’s sunrise. It will be a good day 🙂 @KSeattleWeather pic.twitter.com/3jknDBAyta

— Ayesha Borker (@ayeshaBorker) December 23, 2020

Wow! Good morning Seattle!! #seattle #seattleliving #seattleweather #seattlesunrise #spaceneedle #mountrainier #queenanne #boatingjourney pic.twitter.com/Wkyi8phB3H

— Boating Journey (@BoatingJourney) December 23, 2020

Seattle sunrises >>> pic.twitter.com/5HujYT4lrL

— kelsea ☼☯ (@whaddupschmels) December 23, 2020